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    If You Had $5,000 to Spend on Your Scrap Business- What Would You Do??

    Let's say you have $5,000 to spend on your scrap business- what would you do with it??
    TV ads?
    Signs?
    a Location??
    Hot secretary ( OK maybe not for 5K)
    Mail outs?
    Tools??



    Let's hear your ideas!


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    Buy a decent used truck, some tools, and invest the rest into buying metal.
    There's nothing more fun and more effective than hitting something repeatedly with a sledgehammer

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    I'd buy some land with a shop. Already got everything else I need to be effective lol.

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    Tools
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    Mailouts

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    Hot secretary! Not enough to buy perhaps rent? LOL

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    Truck..........

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    A trailer first and foremost. Then with what is left over, I would use that to hire a hot woman to be a secretary. LoL Ok, maybe not. Guess it would go into ads or tools.

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    Hmmm...

    A hot girl might be able to score more scrap. I'm sure we've seen it happen. People want to help out an attractive person more so than an average woman (or a guy).


    As for me, I'd get a trailer. I have a "crane" I removed from a truck and want to turn it into something like the picture shown. I want to make it longer and a bit wider. It has a 4k hoist on it with a chain drive trolley to position the load anywhere along the I-beam travel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rca987 View Post
    I'd buy some land with a shop. Already got everything else I need to be effective lol.
    Buy land **** stuff must sale cheap in texas lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Focker View Post
    Buy land **** stuff must sale cheap in texas lol.
    You can get unrestricted acres for really cheap the further you go into the country. But we have to drive ALOT further to and from anywhere, unlike some of yall in those itty bitty bite size states

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    yeah i would say so all in all it wouldnt be worth it at all lol.Yeah i would spend it on stuff to make money with it.

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    Truck Trailer and some gas toolbox for the truck and one for the trailer and angle grinder discs and sawzall blades.

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    hot secretary for sure...every one needs visual vitamins!!!

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    Truck and repair on the existing equipment, I have frontloader that's broke and a location to put my crap especially to hoard during down turns.

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    Hot secretary? Interesting you should say that. The three nearest yards all have serious eye-candy working their counters.
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    A good work truck.

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    buy a ticket to america and go scrapping with scrapper girl.

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    $1500 trailer
    Use the rest of what's left for scrap metal and gas.

    Oh, and maybe a videocamera so I can be like that Jack the Scrapper Guy! :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by BurlyGuys View Post
    Hot secretary? Interesting you should say that. The three nearest yards all have serious eye-candy working their counters.
    Help a brother Michigander out with the names of the places!

    I'm married, so you can have 'em, I just want a look!

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    Depends on what you already have.


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